BA Portuguese and Film Studies
About this course
BA in Portuguese and Film Studies, a School of European Languages, Culture and Society degree focusing on language acquisition, literature, and cinema. Core topics include Research Methods. The course includes a compulsory third-year period abroad spent studying or working in a Portuguese-speaking region. The first year covers foundational media analysis and initial language study through Manufacturing Consent: Media and the Making of the Modern World, Theories and Methods in Film and Media Studies, Introduction to Portuguese Language and Lusophone Culture, and The Brazilian Novel. The second year expands into film history, genre studies, and intermediate language modules such as Introduction to Film Genre, Topics in Popular Film and Media, Intermediate Portuguese Language and Lusophone Culture, and Afro-Brazilian Literature in Translation. The third year consists of a compulsory SELCS Year Abroad across two terms. The fourth year concludes the degree with advanced language proficiency, specialised historical study, and independent research through Advanced Portuguese Language and Lusophone Culture, Portugal and Its Empire in the 20th Century: Trajectories and Memories, and a Dissertation in Film and Media. Optional modules in later years allow students to explore topics in international cinema, such as French Film History, Bombay Cinema: Industry and History, and Weimar and Nazi Film.
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Entry requirements
A level: ABB (Previous study of a foreign language is preferred (not necessarily one of the named languages) but not required. Applicants may study two languages at beginner level and may seek advice from the departments concerned if needed.) IB: 34 points (A total of 16 points in three higher level subjects, with no higher level score below 5. Foreign language preferred.)
Modules
- Manufacturing Consent: Media and the Making of the Modern World
- Theories and Methods in Film and Media Studies
- Film and Media History and Analysis
- Introduction to Portuguese Language and Lusophone Culture
- Introduction to Portuguese Literature
- The Brazilian Novel
- Introduction to Film Genre
- Topics in Popular Film and Media
- Mediatising Dissent
- Directions in Contemporary Cinema
- Intermediate Portuguese Language and Lusophone Culture
- The Golden Age of Portuguese Travel Literature
- Afro-Brazilian Literature in Translation
- French Film History
- The New German Cinema
- Docudrama in Contemporary Italian Cinema
- 20th Century Latin American Cinema: History, Politics, Aesthetics
- SELCS Year Abroad Term 1
- SELCS Year Abroad Term 2
- Dissertation in Film and Media
- Advanced Portuguese Language and Lusophone Culture
- Portugal and Its Empire in the 20th Century: Trajectories and Memories
- Short Fiction and the Making of Modern Brazil
- Low Countries Cinema
- The Cinema of Resistance: Second World War
- Film and/as Philosophy
- Bombay Cinema: Industry and History
- East Asian Cinema
- French Film Adaptations
- Weimar and Nazi Film
- Words and Images: Italian Film Adaptations
- Experimental Film and Video: Between Gallery and Cinema
- Spanish Film from the 1990s: New Ways of Seeing (II)
Questions about this course
What grades do I need for BA Portuguese and Film Studies at University College London?
The typical offer is ABB at A level, or 34 points in the IB.